By Ashley Smith, Connor Moylan, Jeffrey Suter, and Marilynn Hunt
This project's purpose was to learn about the human body systems. The task was to learn about two body systems, their functions, how they worked together, and build a model that described the 3 functions. Our group chose to do the skeletal and muscular systems.
Content
Skeletal system: an organ system that contains your bones, cartilage, and joints. It is the framework of your body and protects your internal organs.
Muscular system: an organ system that contains smooth, cardiac, and skeletal muscle. It is the force behind body movement.
(We learned about the skeletal and muscular systems for our project.)
Organ: a self-contained body part that does vital function
(We needed to learn what an organ is because there are a lot of different organs in each body system.)
Bone: hard connective tissue that makes up the skeleton
Cartilage: firm, elastic connective tissue
Joint: a body part made of tissue that connects bones
(We needed to know the organs in the skeletal system to understand how it works.)
Tendon: a cord of fibrous collagen tissue that attaches muscle to bone
(In order to learn how the two systems worked together, we needed to know how they were connected.)
Smooth muscle: type of muscle that controls involuntary movement
Cardic muscle: type of muscle only found in the heart
Skeletal muscle: type of muscle that controls voluntary movement and is connected to bone
(We needed to know the different types of muscle to understand how the muscular system works.)
Muscular system: an organ system that contains smooth, cardiac, and skeletal muscle. It is the force behind body movement.
(We learned about the skeletal and muscular systems for our project.)
Organ: a self-contained body part that does vital function
(We needed to learn what an organ is because there are a lot of different organs in each body system.)
Bone: hard connective tissue that makes up the skeleton
Cartilage: firm, elastic connective tissue
Joint: a body part made of tissue that connects bones
(We needed to know the organs in the skeletal system to understand how it works.)
Tendon: a cord of fibrous collagen tissue that attaches muscle to bone
(In order to learn how the two systems worked together, we needed to know how they were connected.)
Smooth muscle: type of muscle that controls involuntary movement
Cardic muscle: type of muscle only found in the heart
Skeletal muscle: type of muscle that controls voluntary movement and is connected to bone
(We needed to know the different types of muscle to understand how the muscular system works.)
Overview
This was a very quick project. We had a little over a week to complete it. We researched about our systems the first day and the next two days were spent creating a project proposal. Once our proposal was completed we started to build our model. When we finished our model, it did not look the same as our sketch. For example we used less balloons and the balloons popped. Luckily, the popped balloons still demonstrated what we needed it to. The balloons were representing muscles and how they work with bones, the wood. We finished our model early, so we had time to plan out our presentation beforehand. The last two days of the project were spent making our slideshow and presenting in class. This was a good, fast project to end the semester with.
Reflection
This was a fast, informative, and fun project. It reminded me of 9th grade STEM, with the building aspect of it. There are some things I think I did well and others I need to improve on from this project. Two positives were I think I was productive and managed my time well. An example of these was that our group finished our model with an extra work day to spare. We also followed our daily schedule for the most part. I need to work on my creativity and making our model visibly pleasing. The model worked perfectly, it just did not look very nice and I think we could have spent more time fixing that. I enjoyed this project a lot becuase of the building aspect and I thought it was fun. I lookm forward to doing more projefcts like this in the future.